Getting To Grips With The Raw Food Diet

The raw food diet is touted by many in the health community to be beneficial to almost everybody especially those with health issues like obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.

Because food is not cooked under this diet the levels of nutrients tend to be much higher and therefore more beneficial as the cooking prcoess can destroy these inadvertently.

This diet however can be unsuitable for certain people and you should consult your doctor for a professional view.

Food You Can Eat Under This Diet

For other individuals, the raw food diet is a great diet to be on especially when trying to lose weight and yet being unsuccessful at it. Its main thrust is the consumption of raw, fresh and unprocessed foods from fruits and vegetables to fishes and meats, this can be taken to include organic food as well.

In practice though this diet only needs about a third of the food to be uncooked. The other two thirds can be cooked but lightly only or steamed in order to preserve nutrient levels.

Your food needs to be prepared by chopping, blending and juicing with little to no additives. If heat must be applied, only a dehydrator is used. This blows hot air into and through the food at controlled temperatures not exceeding 116 Fahrenheit.

Typical foodstuffs allowed on this diet include beans and legumes’ dried and fresh fruits and vegetables and their freshly-made juices; grains and whole wheat grasses; nuts and seeds; seaweeds and mushrooms; milk from young coconuts and coconut meat itself; and purified water.

Unless you are vegetarian you might like to add eggs, fish and some dairy products.

Precautionary Measures to the Diet

Benefits included in this diet are amongst higher levels of energy, improved digestion, easier weight loss, lower risk of chronic degenerative illnesses, and clearer skin, among others.

But as previously mentioned, not everybody is suitable for this particular diet and even those who are suitable for it must take certain precautions to avoid possible health complications. If you have an underlying medical condition that warrants a special diet, we suggest asking for your doctor’s go-signal before starting on a diet of raw foods.

Other point to note:

Avoid eating large quantities of foods like buckwheat, kidney beans and alfalfa sprouts as these contain toxic substances.

Raw eggs may cause salmonella poisoning, which means that a certain type of processing must be applied before these are eaten.

Raw meat may contain potentially fatal bacteria, parasites and viruses, milk may contain Mycobacteria bovis, the bacteria that causes non-pulmonary tuberculosis.

Be prepared to experience some side effects though when you start, these could include mild headaches and nausea which should pass in a few days.

So, before you plunge into the raw food diet, make sure that you know what it takes to succeed. And always be safe when eating the foods in the diet.

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